The Red Fairy Book, The Marvellous Musician, sentence 59

So they went on their way together, both vowing vengeance on the Musician.

Who acts: pieces, both · What happens: go, vow · To what, where: way, vengeance, Musician

This is a sentence of «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Marvellous Musician. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pieces, both), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	So	so	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 way	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 way	nmod:poss
6	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 went	obl
7	together	together	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 vowing	punct
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 vowing	nsubj
10	vowing	vow	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 went	advcl
11	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vowing	obj
12	on	on	ADP	_	14 Musician	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Musician	det
14	Musician	musician	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 vowing	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	go	past	pieces = piece			pieces's way		together property	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location
2	vow	gerund	both	vengeance		the Musician			tree rules

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Red Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 540 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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